Online Nurses’ Groups Are Rife with Vaccine Disinformation
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Nicole Bennett, a critical care nurse practitioner in Massachusetts, had always found humor and camaraderie in her Facebook group for nurses. She joined the group, called Nurses, in 2019, right after…
Biden Ends Gag Rule on Abortion, Reopens Health Insurance Marketplace
Doug Mills/CNP/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Another day, another spate of executive orders from President Biden aimed at undoing conservative Trump-era policies. Today, Biden signed two orders expanding access to the Affordable Care Act and…
Small-Town America Grapples With Vaccine Logistics
Public health officials test for COVID-19 in Livingston, Montana, in December 2020.William Campbell/ Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One afternoon this…
How One Long-Term Care Facility Convinced Most of its Staff to Get the COVID Vaccine
A nurse in a long-term care facility in Massachusetts receives the coronavirus vaccine.Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The morning of January 8, employees gathered in the lobby at LiveWell, a nonprofit long-term care…
A Disproportionate Share of COVID-19 Vaccines Are Going to White People
Scott Eisen/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Since the start of the pandemic, deep racial inequities in US society have led to people of color being infected and dying of the coronavirus at higher rates than white people.…
New York Hits 1 Million Coronavirus Cases, as Deaths Reach 350,000 Across the County
AP Photo/Seth Wenig Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.New York became the fourth state to reach 1 million coronavirus cases after Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office released data reporting 15,074 new cases on Friday alone. Over 30,000…